astro mick Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Hi. I took this image earlier this week with my DSLR and ED80. It was a very warm night along with a bright Moon.The temperature of the sensor read +25 degrees.so did,nt hold out much hope. I shot 30x300 secs,and fully calibrated. As expected i had a noise issue,and also gradients. I could,nt push the proccessing too far as it soon degraded. Anyway for whats it worth i,m posting it. Cheers. mick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.h.f.wilkinson Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Great result for the conditions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saganite Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Didn't understand a word of that Mick ( I'm not an imager ), but I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdlbug Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Mick, this is a great target to image and you have captured a lot of details in the nebula despite the conditions you describe. Now processing stars in an image is a subject I am currently researching and trying to improve upon. We all push to get the main subject processed and what I am now learning is that in the composition of the final image the way stars are developed makes a big difference as to how we respond to our final processed image. Hope you don't mind but I've used your image as a test and run a reduce stars process to enhance the way we see the nebula rather than being overwhelmed in the field of stars , I also applied a bit of AstroFlat Pro and finished with HLVG - I use Photoshop plugins, so no dark arts, just Troy's Astro Actions at work . This is all a bit post-processing obviously and there are a lot of alternate ways to protect stars size and colour as you step through processing - I am still trying to work out how to do all that - hope you are ok with me using your image as a test and that you like what Ive done -never had the confidence to edit some one's posted work before - this is a first for me. Bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astro mick Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 Thanks guys. Comments much appreciated. Mick. 15 hours ago, BDL_Bug said: Mick, this is a great target to image and you have captured a lot of details in the nebula despite the conditions you describe. Now processing stars in an image is a subject I am currently researching and trying to improve upon. We all push to get the main subject processed and what I am now learning is that in the composition of the final image the way stars are developed makes a big difference as to how we respond to our final processed image. Hope you don't mind but I've used your image as a test and run a reduce stars process to enhance the way we see the nebula rather than being overwhelmed in the field of stars , I also applied a bit of AstroFlat Pro and finished with HLVG - I use Photoshop plugins, so no dark arts, just Troy's Astro Actions at work . This is all a bit post-processing obviously and there are a lot of alternate ways to protect stars size and colour as you step through processing - I am still trying to work out how to do all that - hope you are ok with me using your image as a test and that you like what Ive done -never had the confidence to edit some one's posted work before - this is a first for me. Bryan Hi Bryan. Not at all,and may i say you have produced a very nice image. Good luck with your endeavors,as this proccessing game can be extremely frustrating. Mick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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